ENLIGHTENING THE BRITISH Knowledge, discovery and the museum in the eighteenth century
edited by
R.G.W. Anderson, Ml. Caygill, A.G. MacGregor and L Syson
THE BRITISH MUSEUM PRESS Contents
List of illustrations page vii
Notes on the contributors ix
Introduction 1 Robert Anderson
1 Anticipating the Enlightenment: Museums and galleries in Britain before the British Museum 5 Giles Waterfield
2 Sir Hans Sloane and the European Proto-Museum 11 DeboraJ. Meijers
3 From Private Collection to Public Museum: The Sloane collection at Chelsea and the British Museum in Montagu House 18 Marjorie L Caygill
4 Encyclopaedic Collectors: Ephraim Chambers and Sir Hans Sloane 29 Richard Yeo
5 Wantonness and Use: Ambitions for research libraries in early eighteenth-century England 37 David McKitterick
6 Paper Monuments and Learned Societies: Hooke's Royal Society Repository 49 Lisajardine
7 The Status of Instruments in Eighteenth-Century Cabinets 55 Robert Anderson
8 'Utile et Dulce': Applying knowledge at the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce 62 Celina Fox
9 Wedgwood and his Artists 68 David Bindman
10 Skulls, Mummies and Unicorns' Horns: Medicinal chemistry in early English museums 74 Ken Arnold *
11 Natural History in Eighteenth-Century Museums in Britain 81 HughS. Torrens
12 Linnaeus, Solander and the Birth of a Global Plant Taxonomy 92 Bengtjonsell 13 Joseph Banks, the British Museum and Collections in the Age of Empire 99 Neil Chambers
14 'Ethnography'in the Enlightenment 114 John Mack
15 European Responses to the Sacred Art of India 119 Partha Mitter
16 Dr Richard Mead (1673-1754) and his Circle 127 Ian Jenkins
17 The Rise and Decline of English Neoclassicism 136 Joseph M. Levine
18 Bodies of Enlightenment: Sculpture and the eighteenth-century museum 142 Malcolm Baker
19 Napoleon and Egyptology: Britain's debt to French enterprise 149 T.C.H.James
20 Martin Folkes and the Study of the English Coinage in the Eighteenth Century 158 Hugh Pagan
21 The Antiquary en plein air: Eighteenth-century progress from topographical survey to the threshold of field archaeology 164 Arthur MacCregor
22 Record and Reverie: Representing British antiquity in the eighteenth century 176 Sam Smiles
Afterword 185 Keith Thomas
Index 187